References

Parallel DBMS Vendors

Quote from "Object-Oriented Database Management Systems" 1994 IDC (International Data Corporation)

• Product overview
  "MATISSE combines advanced, object-oriented modeling capabilities with mission-critical transactional technology. It is designed for the needs of applications that require large volumes of complex, inter-related, multityped information, fault tolerance, ensured data consistency and integrity, high-speed OLTP access, high throughput and performance, historical object management, and intelligent modeling of constraints".
  
  
  
  
• Fault Tolerance
  "Very few of the object databases provide redundancy or replication features, and most of the systems have single points of failure."
  "ADB supports object replication".
  
  
• Scalability
  "... the ODBMS products ... are thus generally poorly suited for OLTP-style applications. One clear exception to this is ADB's MATISSE, which has several real-time, OLTP-style applications built on it".